Lin Yu, being a child of fortune, had many tricks up his sleeve.
He actually managed to get someone to bail him out.
After breathing in the fresh air outside for a few moments, Lin Yu's gaze gradually became more determined.
"The school can wait, the cave dwelling is more important!"
With that, Lin Yu rushed non-stop towards the mountainous area his master had left for him.
Yes, he ran!
Currently, Lin Yu was penniless, his wallet had disappeared at some point, and nowadays all transportation required scanning QR codes for payment. As someone who had spent over a decade training in the mountains... his impression of the city was still stuck in the past decade.
No different from a wild man!
He had originally planned to contact Ye Changkong to have someone drive him there.
But the journey to the cave dwelling had to be kept secret - this was his destined opportunity, and he couldn't allow even the slightest mistake.
He ran from afternoon until deep into the night, covering roughly the distance of two marathons - even Kipchoge, the world marathon champion, would have shed tears at the sight.
"Damn, finally made it."
"It was so far, should have just called Ye Changkong after all."
Lin Yu grumbled, looking down at his shoes - the soles were completely worn through, with his big toe poking out.
Even as a Dark Force master, he was thoroughly exhausted.
Lin Yu arrived at the mountain stream and leaped down from above.
The height of about ten meters, though significant, wasn't much of a challenge for a Dark Force master like him.
He landed smoothly, even showing off a bit, despite having no audience.
"Holy crap!!!"
"Which idiot left nails here? [expletives]!"
Lin Yu clutched his foot in pain - a long nail had nearly pierced through his sole.
But with remarkable willpower, he managed to stumble to his feet.
He slowly walked to the stone door... wait, where's the stone door?
Lin Yu's eyes widened as he stared bewilderedly at the electronic door before him, his mind filled with countless question marks.
Lin Yu crouched by the electronic door to examine it carefully, even gently tapping it with his finger.
"Please enter password!"
The electronic synthesized voice startled Lin Yu.
"Damn it, old man Lin, are you messing with me? An electronic door?"
"You set up this so-called sacred realm and told me it opens once every six years? Bull!"
Lin Yu clearly didn't take the electronic door seriously and clenched his fist.
He threw a punch straight at it!
"Ahhhh!!!"
A scream like a slaughtered pig.
"Why is this door so hard? I'm a Dark Force master!"
He couldn't break through, and his fingers were numb from the impact.
If brute force won't work, try cunning!
"What password?"
Lin Yu had no choice but to properly crack this password thing.
[Ding! Please answer three questions, and the door will open automatically]
Lin Yu smiled, confident and arrogant.
Despite spending over a decade training in the mountains, when it came to knowledge... he was undoubtedly a top student!
"Ask away!"
[Question One: Shout 'I am a dog' three times and bark three times]
"Damn you, old man Lin!"
Lin Yu cursed out loud.
This kind of torturous nonsense was exactly the sort of thing old man Lin would come up with.
"Old man Lin, I know this is your doing, and you can probably hear me talking, right? Stop messing with me, I won't bow down."
Lin Yu crossed his arms, maintaining a proud stance.
He continued this battle of wits with thin air for about ten minutes.
Lin Yu was starting to crack.
"Hey? Old man Lin, you're not really going to make me bark like a dog, are you?"
"Can you at least answer me?"
"Fine, fine, fine, I'll remember this grudge!"
"I am a dog! I am a dog! I am a dog! Woof woof woof~"
Lin Yu practically had to grit his teeth to say it.
In Lin Yu's mind, it was still his master playing tricks on him.
[Ding! Now for the second question, please reveal your deepest secret]
Lin Yu shrugged, this wasn't a problem.
"Old man, you already know this, don't you? Peeping at Widow Wang from the neighboring village while she was bathing, you were there with me, why are you playing these games now?"
[Ding! Now for the third question]
Lin Yu's smile grew wider, is that all?
Old man Lin, you're not as tough as I thought.
Is this supposed to be challenging?
[Question Three: Please recite all 10,000 decimal places of pi]
Lin Yu: "???"
What?
Could you possibly be any more sadistic?
Recite 10,000 decimal places? Could you be any more inhuman?
But Lin Yu finally surrendered to reality.
He opened his phone and began reciting the long string of pi digits.
"Heh... just 10,000 digits! It's just reading... not memorizing? This is piece of cake!"
Although Lin Yu thought the question was absurd, mere 10,000 digits... was too simple. Reading two digits per second would only take about an hour, not a difficult task.
"3.1415926...."
When he reached around 400 digits, he suddenly made a mistake.
[Ding! Error, please start over...]
Lin Yu frowned, instinctively sensing something wasn't quite right.
But he started reading again, this time slower and more carefully.
Yet when he reached about 1,000 digits, he made another mistake.
"Damn!"
Had to start over!
Made it to 2,000 digits... damn it!
3,000 digits... curse it!
5,000 digits... ah!
After countless attempts, two nights had passed, and it was already noon of the third day.
Lin Yu was still reading!
He conserved his phone battery as much as possible, and eventually could even recite up to 5,000 digits from memory. His brain was severely overloaded, hungry and tired... his vision blurring.
[Ding! Congratulations on completing all trials, beep! Door opening]
The electronic door opened—
Lin Yu burst into tears.
To think that he, the proud dragon descending from the mountain, a Dark Force master... a tough guy who would bleed but never cry, would actually weep!
He had been tortured beyond humanity, his head now full of nothing but numbers, seeing numbers in everything, feeling like he was about to ascend to become a machine.
"Finally made it in. Lin Xiaotian, just wait until I get my hands on you... I'll pluck every hair from your beard."
Lin Yu practically crawled into the cave dwelling.
The cave was clean, with only a stone table holding a golden jade pendant and a blue-purple manual.
Wait... blue-purple?
Lin Yu was somewhat confused.
Upon closer inspection, Lin Yu drew a sharp breath.
"Five Years of Research and Examination, Three Years of Practice"???
"Is this... is this some kind of new skin for an ancient martial arts manual?"
Lin Yu's mouth twitched as he picked up the thick materials.
"These are really study materials? Damn, it's mathematics? And this year's new edition?"
Even if Lin Yu was dense, he knew he'd been played!
"Damn you, old man Lin, you're just picking on me, aren't you?"
What sacred realm opening once every six years - it was all lies!
Well... this kind of deception was exactly what Lin Xiaotian would do.
But he still stubbornly flipped through to the last page.
Sure enough, there was writing.
[Child, knowledge changes destiny. I know your personality is hasty and your temper is fierce - you must have suffered some setbacks, right? Listen to your master's advice... put aside martial arts and read more books, it'll do you good]
[In this descent from the mountain, we masters want you to temper your heart in the mortal world, advancing too quickly in power isn't good for you]
[Also, don't get too caught up with women, only studying can help you progress - women will only slow down your sword-drawing speed]
o a martial world and obtained a system that allowed him to draw one entry per year. Unfortunately, all he drew were useless white-tier entries. The probability for high-quality entries was extremely low, with the highest-tier mythic entry having a mere 0.001% chance! To increase the probability, he had to improve his martial realm, but he lacked the innate talent for cultivation. At the age of eighteen, Chen Yi fell into the hands of a gang and was forced into hard labor. Just as his life seemed destined for a bleak end, on his 18th entry draw, he actually pulled a mythic entry—Simulator! In the simulation, he could also draw one entry every year that passed, and upon ending the simulation, he would inherit all entries and his martial realm! In his first simulation, Chen Yi struggled desperately just to survive, knowing that living one more year meant one more entry draw! Finally, with hair turned white, he drew the entry he had longed for—Low-Grade Innate Talent! "Hahaha! Don't bully the old and poor! Time to cultivate and inherit my cultivation base!" ... From then on, Chen Yi continuously simulated and drew entries, his martial realm soaring higher and higher! Epic, legendary, and even mythic entries were gathered into his collection one after another! "What demon race or devil race? What dark turmoil? I don't know anything about that. They just charged at me screaming 'How can you possibly ascend to immortality?!' and got stuck to my fists, unable to be shaken off. Blind spots, speed bumps... go talk to my simulator. We're all struggling to survive out here. I'm trying so hard, so how are they still alive?"
grated, and just when he finally managed to get into an elite academy, he discovered that he actually had a system, and the way to earn rewards was extremely ridiculous. So for the sake of rewards, he had no choice but to start acting ridiculous as well. Su Cheng: "It's nothing but system quests after all." But later, what confused Su Cheng was that while he was already quite ridiculous, he never expected those serious characters to gradually become ridiculous too. And the way they looked at him became increasingly strange... (This synopsis doesn't do it justice, please read the full story)
world slacker. But a genius female disciple just had to get clingy, insisting that he take her as a disciple. Not only that, she was always making advances on him, thoroughly disrupting his peaceful slacker life...
Resolve] Gu Yang was once a true disciple of the Falling Cloud Sect, but after failing to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage, his cultivation regressed, his foundation was damaged, his lifespan was nearing its end, and he was about to be demoted to a menial servant. At his moment of despair, he awakened the [Daily Intelligence System]. By refreshing it daily, he could learn about countless hidden opportunities and secrets within the cultivation world! [Today's intelligence has been refreshed] [White Intelligence: One month ago, the Foundation Establishment spiritual item "Profound Ice Spirit Marrow" used by the host to attempt his breakthrough contained a trace of the poison "Bone-Corrobing Spirit-Dissolving Powder".] [Purple Intelligence: Tonight during the Yin hour (3-5 AM), a wisp of "Golden Crow Primordial Flame" will overflow... If this flame is devoured, it can recast the shattered cultivation foundation, fully restore cultivation, and awaken the one-in-ten-thousand—Primordial Supreme Yang Body. [Click to view coordinates]] [Golden Intelligence: Shen Qingyue, a Golden Core elder of the Falling Cloud Sect who possesses the Nine Yin Body, suffers from backlash of cold energy every full moon night, causing her strength to plummet and excruciating pain. Grand Elder Zhao Wuji has secretly bribed Shen Qingyue's personal maid, Hongxiu, and learned the rear gate array node of the protective formation "Clouds and Mist Veiling the Sun Array". Tomorrow late at night, he intends to take advantage of Shen Qingyue's flare-up of the cold poison, when she is weak and unable to resist, to use a secret technique to refine her into a cauldron and force her into a Daoist partnership. [Click to view coordinates]] The cultivation world is a jungle where the strong prey on the weak, and human hearts are as treacherous as ghosts? Sorry, but I can read the script! From then on, relying on his informational advantage, Gu Yang proceeded step by step with careful planning. Seizing opportunities, plundering fortunes. Selling intelligence. Playing rivals against each other. Step by step, he ultimately became the Immortal Emperor!
